August 2004 in Sports - August 18, 2004

August 18, 2004

• 2004 Summer Olympics:
  • Athletics: Konstantinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who missed a mandatory drugs test last Thursday, withdraw from the games after an IOC disciplinary hearing – even though the IOC chose not to take any action against them. A meeting of the IAAF on August 26 will consider whether a doping offence has been committed. (BBC)
  • Equestrian: Bettina Hoy of Germany crosses the start line twice, and is awarded penalty points. After an appeal, the points are removed. This gives Hoy the gold medal in the individual event, and Germany gold in the team event, overturned on appeal (see August 21).
  • Gold medal winners on day 5: (BBC)
    • Archery:
      • Women's Individual (70 m): Sung Hyun Park, KOR
    • Athletics:
      • Men's Shot Put: Yuriy Bilonog, UKR
      • Women's Shot Put: Yumileidi Cumba, CUB (revised result: See August 23)
    • Canoeing:
      • Men's C-1 Slalom: Tony Estanguet, FRA
      • Women's K-1 Slalom: Elena Kaliská, SVK
    • Cycling:
      • Men's Individual Time Trial: Tyler Hamilton, USA
      • Women's Individual Time Trial: Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel, NED
    • Equestrian:
      • Mixed Individual: Leslie Law, Shear L'Eau, GBR (result changed after appeal)
      • Mixed Team: France (Nicolas Touzaint – Galan de Sauvagere, Jean Teulere – Espoir de la Mare, Didier Courrèges – Deba d'Estruval, Cedric Lyard – Fine Merveille, Arnaud Boiteau – Expo du Moulin) (result changed after appeal)
    • Fencing:
      • Women's Individual Foil: Valentina Vezzali, ITA
    • Gymnastics:
      • Men's Artistic Individual All-Around: Paul Hamm, USA
    • Judo:
      • Women's 63–70 kg: Masae Ueno, JPN
      • Men's 81–90 kg: Zurab Zviadauri, GEO
    • Shooting:
      • Women's 25m Sport Pistol: Mariya Grozdeva, BUL
      • Women's Double Trap: Kimberly Rhode, USA
    • Swimming:
      • Men's 100 m Freestyle: Pieter van den Hoogenband, NED
      • Men's 200 m Breaststroke: Kosuke Kitajima, JPN
      • Women's 200 m Butterfly: Otylia Jędrzejczak, POL
      • Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay: United States (Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, Dana Vollmer, Kaitlin Sandeno)
    • Weightlifting:
      • Women's 58–63 kg: Nataliya Skakun, UKR
      • Men's 62–69 kg: Guozheng Zhang, CHN